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Scorched Earth : Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict.
Title:
Scorched Earth : Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict.
Author:
Pollard, Tony.
ISBN:
9789047423942
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
Editorial (Tony Pollard and Iain Banks) -- ARTICLES -- Iain Banks, Ghosts in the Desert: the Archaeological Investigation of a Sub-Saharan Battlefield -- James Bonsall, The Study of Small Finds at the 1644 Battle of Cheriton -- Conor Brady, Emmet Byrnes, Gabriel Cooney & Aidan O'Sullivan, An Archaeological Study of the Battle of the Boyne at Oldbridge, Co Meath -- Natasha N. Ferguson, Platforms of Reconciliation? Issues in the Management of Battlefield Heritage in the Republic of Ireland -- Tom Fisher, Objects for Peaceful Disordering: Indigenous Designs and Practices of Protest -- Derek Allsop & Glenn Foard, Case Shot: An Interim Report on Experimental firing and Analysis to Interpret Early Modern Battlefield Assemblages -- Alastair H. Fraser & Martin Brown, Mud, Blood and Missing Men: Excavations at Serre, Somme, France -- William O. Frazer, Field of Fire: Evidence for Wartime Conflict in a 17th-Century Cottier Settlement in County Meath, Ireland -- Pádraig Lenihan, Unhappy Campers: Dundalk (1689) and After -- Damian Shiels, Battle and Siege Maps of Elizabethan Ireland: Blueprints for Archaeologists? -- David Sneddon, Newfoundlanders in a Highland Forest During WWII -- Tina L. Thurston, Rituals of Rebellion: Cultural Narratives and Metadiscourse of Violent Conflict in Iron Age and Medieval Denmark -- Jonathan Trigg, Memory and Memorial: A Study of Official and Military Commemoration of the Dead, and Family and Community Memory in Essex and East London -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Richard Strachan, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, by Gregory A. Waselkov -- Richard Strachan, Bloody Meadows: Investigating Landscapes of Battle, by John & Patricia Carman -- Biographies -- Index.
Abstract:
This volume draws together a series of new studies into various aspects of the archaeology of conflict. Part of the volume focuses on conflict in the twentieth century, with several papers dealing with the growing field of First World War archaeology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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